Section C·Page 2
The University Daily Kansan
Monday, August 17, 1998
Welcome Back Students!
Students entertain options
Frisbee golf, paintball offer varied challenges
By Mollinda Weaver
Kansan staff writer
When it seems like every Lawrence club is exactly the same and there are no good movies to be found anywhere, area recreation offers some interesting ideas for entertaining students.
The Drop Zone, 1029 Douglas County Road three miles south of Highway 56, provides one alternative paintable.
Jeff Immer, Lawrence freshman, plays a round of frisbee golf at Centennial Park. Frisbee golf is an inexpensive way for students in colerx. Photo by Joshn Griffin / KANSAN
The tree-filled area allows for different types of challenges.
One challenge consists of a team inside a fort and another outside attacking. Another involves a flagpole in the middle of a field with two teams to reach it to put their flag in the post first. The final alternative is a free-for-all, winner takes all, battle.
Once hit, players must place a plug in their gun and hold it up. Their participation has ended.
"It's a good way to vent the stress and frustration of school and get an adrenaline rush at the same time," said Jeremy Crabb, Overland Park senior. He visited the park with his residence hall floor during his sophomore year.
April Workman, Drop Zone employee, said that it had great appeal to student groups looking for something exciting.
"Most of the fraternities come out for their rush parties, and a lot of dorm floors come twice." Workman said. "They come in the fall, so everyone can get to know each other and again in the spring to run out the floor fund money."
The Drop Zone is open Saturdays and Sundays with sessions at 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. and weekdays by appointment for groups of 15 or more.
The price is $25 for individuals and $20 per person with groups of 15 or more. The price includes goggles, all other safety equipment, paintball gun rental and 100 rounds of painballs.
A much cheaper activity to occupy a boring afternoon is frisbee golf.
Centennial Park, 9th and Iowa streets behind Bucky's, has an 18-hole course that is changed occasionally to add an extra challenge for frequent visitors.
The rules are simple. It's like regular golf, except with discs. Players aim for metal baskets that are about four feet in the air on a pole.
"Frisbee golf is perfect," said
Matthew Miller, University of Nebraska student. "It's inexpensive, low maintenance and fun."
Miller and his golfing companions, Dan Augustyn and David Williams, also from the University of Nebraska, spent the summer at Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall working as camp counselors. In their spare moments, the counselors discovered frisbee golf.
"We try to play every day,"
Augustyn said. "It's relaxing and gives us a break from watching the kids."
Because frisbee golf at Centennial Park is free, players must provide their own dives, which can be purchased at local sporting good stores.
Experienced players play with ten discs, which vary much like golf clubs do. There are long and mid-range discs and even putters. However, frisbee golf can be played with only one.
Make no mistake, Lawrence's South Park is place for real fun
Before classes resume, take the time to let out your inner child. As they say in the song: "Go on down to South Park and have yourself a time."
By Julio Sachs Kansan staff writer
The park's playground area is
South Park is not just a cartoon about foul-mouthed third graders. It is the Lawrence park located at 11th and Massachusetts streets. But like the cartoon, the park will make you remember what it is like to be a kid again.
For individuals whose interests do not include playing on swing sets, South Park offers other alternatives.
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"Students can study in South
The park also is a site for many community activities.
The Arts and Crafts festival will be held in the park from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 13.
exhibitors from around the country will be shown, said
One of the featured acts will be the Wind Wizards, who will give a kite show, he said.
available to children of all ages. Only the wading pool is closed to the older children, said Kathy Fode, recreational supervisor.
For food fanatics, about 19 vendors will be set up around the park during the festival.
Even when major events are not happening, South Park is a popular location for picnics.
A picnic kit can be rented at the Community Building, Fode said. The kit includes a volleyball net, softball equipment, a soccer ball, a
Dwayne Peterson, special events supervisor. Food and various entertainment also will be offered.
frisbee and other various recreational equipment.
the price of the kit is $25, but the fee is reimbursed when the full kit is returned.
Because of its open space, South Park also is a popular place to play a variety of sports, including softball and soccer. Fode said.
South Park's location on Massachusetts street also adds to the park's appeal.
"A lot of students come in here and sit in the park because it's a pretty park and close to downtown," Fode said.